connect the dots

connect the dots

1. Literally, to draw a line between dots, often as part of a children's activity to create an illustration or design. The kids are having fun connecting the dots and making pretty pictures for us.

2. To understand something by piecing together hints or other bits of information. Once I started to connect the dots, I realized that, if they hadn't called me by now, I probably wasn't getting the job.

connect the ˈdots

(British English also join (up) the ˈdots) find or show the relationships between different things: It’s not hard to connect the dots between crime and poverty. ▶ connect-the-ˈdots adj.: a connect-the-dots article

It suggests the range of an artist who, in collaborations with Cage, Mark Lancaster, Jasper Johns, Isamu Noguchi, David Tudor, Rei Kawakubo, and Robert Rauschenberg, has connected the dots between disciplines for at least two-thirds of the twentieth century.

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